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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Using a metaphor, a happy household can be compared to what, according to the author?
(a) A poem.
(b) A soul at peace.
(c) A flourishing nest.
(d) A child's drawing.

2. What are resonances as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Internalities, that which we hear.
(b) Internalities, that which we say.
(c) Externalities, that which we hear.
(d) Externalities, that which we say.

3. Who claimed that no man can build a nest as well as a small animal or bird?
(a) Pare.
(b) Vlaminck.
(c) Pasternak.
(d) Van Gogh.

4. Which professional professes to understand and interpret images?
(a) Psychoanalyst.
(b) Artist.
(c) Psychologist.
(d) Philosopher.

5. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?
(a) The lover's nest.
(b) The magic of rainbows.
(c) The refuge of the forest.
(d) Poetic imagery.

6. According to Bachelin, which is the oldest season?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

7. What is anthropo-cosmology?
(a) The transformation of a human body and soul when moving to a new house.
(b) The transformation of a house-like object after it receives human body and soul.
(c) The transformation of a human body and soul after death.
(d) The transformation of a house-like object when it is torn down.

8. What are reverberations as defined by Bachelard?
(a) Externalities, that which we hear.
(b) Externalities, that which we say.
(c) Internalities, that which we say.
(d) Internalities, that which we hear.

9. Bachelard, expanding on the work of Rilke, proposes that a box top, like the cover of a pot, may do what?
(a) Maintain secrecy.
(b) Make the world get along better.
(c) Lead to future discovery.
(d) Create deceptions.

10. To what iconic Van Gogh image does the author compare a bird's nest on the ground?
(a) Corn stalk.
(b) Sunflower.
(c) Childhood home.
(d) Thatched cottage.

11. What does a metaphor present?
(a) An intangible object as a tangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.
(b) A tangible object described in full detail.
(c) An intangible object described in full detail.
(d) A tangible object as an intangible notion that is otherwise difficult to express.

12. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?
(a) The sense of vertical rising.
(b) The sense of escape.
(c) The sense of superiority.
(d) The sense of being closer to God.

13. In the works of Edgar Allan Poe, murder and mayhem usually occur where?
(a) In dark attics.
(b) In the imagination.
(c) In childhood homes.
(d) In criminal cellars.

14. The author theorizes that an unhappy child will draw what sort of a house?
(a) Cold, motionless, and rigid.
(b) A dream house.
(c) Small and dark.
(d) Happy, with doorknobs and chimney smoke.

15. As understood by Bachelard, a house features which two seemingly conflicting dimensions?
(a) House and home.
(b) Unity and complexity.
(c) Height and width.
(d) Poetry and science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bachelard believe is an antidote for claustrophobia?

2. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?

3. Bachelard wishes to distinguish between metaphor and what?

4. Bachelard spent the majority of his career in what occupation?

5. Psychoanalysis of artwork is primarily an analysis of what?

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